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...British air defense. The group soon made a far-reaching recommendation: put every ounce of British brainpower into developing radar. Then Lindemann landed on the committee as Churchill's delegate. For a solid year, he argued so savagely for his own gadgety notions (infrared detection of enemy planes, aerial parachute mines) that at one point the committee broke up. Costly Victory. Tizard pressed on, and radar was ready in time to help win the Battle of Britain. But the feud had just begun. When Churchill became Prime Minister in 1940, Lindemann forced Tizard...
Skillfully selected and edited, the series' opener traced both Churchill and his country through the years that bridged the wars, from bursting shells among the trenches of 1918 to the first aerial bombardments of 1940. One fine vignette followed another: Churchill sitting in a wheelchair in Manhattan, bandages on his nose and forehead, after an automobile nearly ended his life on Fifth Avenue in 1931; Hitler barking Sieg, Sieg, in antiphony with the full-throated Heils of massed Germans; the odd and sinister British-Nazi faction of Sir Oswald Mosley goose-stepping in Hyde Park; the garden walls hand...
...than a river in flood-until Carole Lombard was killed in an air crash during the early months of World War II. Soon afterward he en listed in the Army Air Forces, flew combat missions in B-17s out of Peterborough, England, functioning as both the head of an aerial film unit and as a turret gunner...
PRINCETON--Terry Bartolet, once the Crimson's forgotten man, has now gone from football rags to riches twice in the same season. Given another chance Saturday when the varsity's offense stalled under the direction of Ted Halaby, Bartolet reponded with a dazzling aerial show...
...unless coach John Yoviosin has devised a plan to protect the middle of the field, Penn could turn the contest today into a one-aided romp. Tailbacks Koval and Porter Shreve are both fine passers, and if a Quaker aerial can spring fleet wingback Peter Schants loose in the Crimson secondary, it will be bye, bye, baby...